Annie Terrell found herself living out many people's worst nightmare, and she was loving every second of it. She didn't originally intend to take off her clothes in front of 100 people, but it just looked like so much fun.

With the Reality Revue, some onetime TV hotties get another chance in the spotlight

By LARRY GETLEN The Citylink

The Reality Revue is a burlesque show featuring five of reality TV's hottest stars in both looks and popularity: Sarah Kozer from Joe Millionaire, Heidi Strobel and Jenna Morasca from Survivor: The Amazon, Paige Jones from For Love or Money and Catherine Chiarelli from Temptation Island 2.

Edinburgh festival: Life's a tassle for Immodesty Blaize What we mean by . . . Burlesque. By Lara Clifton for The Times

Burlesque means bawdy satire and it started out in the London music halls. Women wearing shorts would speak to the audience, which was thought of as very risqué at the time. Wearing shorts was bad enough but making direct eye contact with the audience and telling dirty jokes made it a very low form of art.

Tamara and I call ourselves the burlesque circus and we like to combine different aspects of old theatre, vaudeville and the sideshow feel of Victorian circuses.

A multimedia production, the show uses props and also a video screen to set the scenes. The production travels from the depths of the jungle to present-day Havana, illustrating the birth of Cuban music as we are swept away on an 80-minute journey.

Myth has it that the flesh-baring aspect of burlesque really took off when a female performer suffered a Janet Jackson-style wardrobe malfunction, snapped a strap and exposed a bare shoulder. Noting the enthusiastic reaction of the crowd, the aforementioned strap mysteriously ‘snapped’ every night thereafter and thus striptease was born.

Hi-Ball Burlesque began performing in Melbourne in 2002, held a residency at the Kitten Club, and did a stint at the Spiegeltent this year. The women are not full-time dancers - they hold down various jobs during the day, ranging from nursing to advertising - but, on stage, they wear showgirl outfits that boast a Las Vegas heat.

Main Wayang to debut at Arts House's One celebration by CHEAH UI-HOON for the Singapore Business Times

For The Arts House's 'One' first anniversary, Main Wayang will present Bibiks in Parliament, which will be a musical comedy revue weaving together songs, dances and skits that showcase various aspects of the Peranakan lifestyle and psyche.

Hello Dollies againThe Dim Sum Dollies are back, and better than everin the Singapore New Paper

The knee-slapping cabaret act of Selena Tan, Pamela Oei and Emma Yong, whose satirical eye on all things Singaporean seems to be on the threshold of becoming an exportable homegrown brand name like Zouk or Creative Technologies.

The current modern appetite for opera to be amplified and super-sexy has the purists in despair at this continued dumbing down of the art form, but there are countless new admirers, who, aided by the sight and sound of a pretty face, impressive bosom and a bit of rock'n'roll reverb, are discovering that they really do dig the likes of Mozart, Verdi and Delibes after all.

It's the traditional burlesque boom-boom, but it's served up with the backing beats of the independent music scene's icons. With a floating lineup of women who have been described by more than one hip music magazine as the types of indie-rock chicks you would expect to see in the mosh pit at a Strokes show - but with their tops off - SuicideGirls claim to smash the stereotype of beauty by offering an alternative alternative.

But website co-founder Missy Suicide doesn't consider what she does as porn, even if the site has partial and sometimes full-frontal nudity. She says the big difference is that the images on suicidegirls.com are a reflection of the models' own visions.

"In traditional pornography, they carry out the photographer's vision or the client's - but rarely the model's," Missy says.

The Suicide Girls pose in many ways. Some appear with lollipops covering their privates. Others bathe naked in tubs of cheese puffs. Yet there is one thing you will never see them pose with.

"It's actually illegal to pose with the penguins in Antarctica," Missy says. "You can't disturb the penguins in their natural environment. Our Suicide Girl there is a research scientist, so she knows the law."

That's aquatainment!by LYNDSEY WINSHIP for the Guardianpublished: November 30, 2006

'It's always been laughed at," says Tamara Tyrer, co-founder of burlesque outfit the Whoopee Club. "But I've always thought synchronised swimming was beautiful. So I wanted to make a show that celebrated it."

Stripping the light fantasticWhen Betty Blaze tells people she’s a burlesque dancer, they look at her as if she has two heads. Which she does - at least on stage.

Blaze is one of hundreds of burlesque performers ... featured at the Great Boston Burlesque Exposition, which opens tonight .... It’s produced by The Professional Burlesque Society, a nonprofit organization offering educational and professional resources for aspiring strippers, sideshow artists and vaudeville performers.

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